It is interesting to be here and to see that for certain actors they have to live in a way that you think of nobody living anymore except for in small towns. They have such elaborate double lives.
BILL CONDONBecause his basic idea that he got from the study of gall wasps is that everyone’s sexuality is unique.
More Bill Condon Quotes
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It’s an odd thing to go to New York to shoot a movie that is set in Indiana.
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That day I think we really saw each other for the first time. I mean, saw beyond the bag of bones on the outside. You take away her pretty and my plain and what you get underneath is about the same: a couple of lost girls looking to be found.
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First of all, just knowing people who grew up in the movie business at that time, no one had Mexican maids.
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You’ve got friends and family. That’s how we get by. We talk and share and eat cake and giggle in the dark, even when we’re scared – no, especially when we’re scared.
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In Hollywood through the 50s, there were black, English, and Middle European housekeepers and maids.
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The thing I’ve noticed about life is that it just keeps coming at you. And it can be a real bummer. What you need to remember is that you’re not alone.
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For me, someone like the Eddie Murphy character doesn’t live anywhere; he lives on a stage and when he’s not on the stage he’s on a bus getting to the next stage.
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I had a couple of movies that I was passionately involved with that I could never get made. ‘Richard Pryor,’ I wrote for – gosh – over a year. That was close to getting made for two-and-a-half years after that.
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There’s nothing quite as good as folding up into a book and shutting the world outside.If I pick the right one I can be beautiful, or fall in love, or live happily ever after. Maybe even all three.
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Our relationships, relationships between adults, how all those pieces fit together – that’s the most complicated thing we all face.
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I think that finding a way into somebody’s life that’s sort of off from a side angle can tell you more about that person than a greatest hits approach.
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We knew that there was a certain kind of interest in Whale among a genre crowd.
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I wanted to make connections between Whale’s past and present.
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It’s in the nature of television to restrain the spontaneity of a live event. Things become more and more prepackaged.
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From its inception by Michael Bennett, ‘Dreamgirls’ has always been an epic story with an ensemble cast. I didn’t change that. The screen version remains, really, a group story.
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